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How to Fix Federal Student Loan Debt without the Democrats’ Debt Forgiveness Promises
On the campaign trail, Democratic candidates fall over themselves to promise broad federal student loan forgiveness for votes; but when it comes to reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which governs the federal student loan program and is before Congress … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Political Discussions
Tagged Higher Education Act, student loan bubble, student loans
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Reply to Ed Powell re: ARI and the Political Spectrum
On my last post “Lessons from the Aristotle Adventure Applied to Objectivism,” Ed Powell invested the time to make a substantial comment which merits a substantial but quickish response. In tone Powell’s comment related to ARI and the left-right political spectrum … Continue reading
Posted in Political Discussions
Tagged ARI, Aristotle, Ayn Rand Institute, books, Ed Powell
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Lessons from The Aristotle Adventure Applied to Objectivism
This post is a reply to Mr Cropper’s YouTube video “Objectivist Pnyx Is Hereby Assembled” in which he in part called me out to substantiate one of my earlier comments. On his vid “Mr. Cropper, Objectivist Driver” I had reasserted he needed … Continue reading
Posted in Political Discussions
Tagged Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand Institute, books, Mr Cropper, Yaron Brook
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Thoughts of Employment Testing and Liability
Recently, Yaron Brook published interesting commentary about the Aunt Becky college admissions scandal. He shared an anecdote about a conversation with company executives about why they don’t test job candidates in order to qualify them for employment. Here is Brook’s … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Economics, Political Discussions, The Courts
Tagged Aunt Becky, Certification, College, EEOC
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How MoSCoW Can Fix America’s Spending Problem
In the past several years, I have been working on managing a multitude of requirements within a government project so that the objective was achieved on time and on budget. The lessons learned about setting and enforcing priorities are principles … Continue reading
Selfish Citizenship 